Kodak vs. Samsung

For Father’s Day, the love of my life gave me a Kodak EasyShare C813 – that was on sale, she was sure to note – and I am thrilled. Even though just a few minutes ago I finally took it out of its open-proof packaging and put it to work.

In the meanwhile, I bet she’s either been thinking to herself:

A.) He’s not really thrilled with the gift

B.) He’s secretly planning to return it, get the cash and land himself two adult Frontosas.

C.) He loves it. He just doesn’t wanna let on he expects such great gifts.

D.) I shoulda boughta Coach purse for myself, instead.

Well, no matter what she was thinking, the answer is “C” and here is a test run of the new camera vs. the camera I already have – yet, as she so tenderly noted: “Everytime you use the damn thing, you say how much you hate it.”

Let’s take a look …

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The first Samsung shot.

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The first Kodak shot.

Yup. Hands down, the new one’s better. And, it doesn’t take several seconds to try to auto focus and decide if it wants to shoot or not. Hooray!

RSSinclude!

Today, I found RSSinclude, a nifty open-source RSS ap that spits out PHP or java sceript so I can broadcast RSS on my front page. I found RSSinclude through this page, which I found through Wikipedia, I think.

I also use Feed Digest for this as I do on my homepage to broadcast my most recent blog posts, but then Feed Informer bought them out and when I tried to apply it to broadcasting my Plogger gallery – thus giving me an updated photo on my homepage hands free – it wouldn’t work with the desired results.

But RSSinclude works fine, just as the RSSreaders I added to my MySpace and Facebook accounts.

Now, if I can only figure this out without the ads.

Until laters …

May photos are up

I have posted 106 new photos to my Web site’s Plogger photo gallery.

Check them out here.

Here’s a preview:

Corina’s birthday
Corina’s birthday

At Chuck E. Cheese
At Chuck E. Cheese

Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day

Kramer’s new ‘do
Silly Kramer

Leila’s art opening
Leila’s opening

Midnight at Surfside
Midnight at Surfside

David’s party
David’s birthday party

Ben’s party
Ben’s surprise birthday party

Well, that’s all for now. Enjoy until next time – which hopefully will be sooner. Whew.